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Tracking paranormal activity broke

After months of everything being in order, Mafia stopped being able to correctly track paranormal activities. The script puts on the proton pack, as it should, but then the proton pack's report doesn't get saved to ghostLocation. Hitting up the quest log sets ghostLocation up appropriately, but after disposing of the ghost nextParanormalActivity remains unchanged.

This showed up today morning in r18210 with no warning, after months of everything running smoothly. I upgraded to r18312 just in case that would help, it did not. Some assistance please? Maybe something got borked in Mafia's back end and it's having trouble updating things? But digitized monster tracking and re-digitizing, similarly based on set properties, is still working flawlessly...

Actually, this is probably related to a shift in proton pack messages reported in GD, sometimes with some extra numbers, sometimes just coming to life. Suggested workaround - if spotting a proton pack message, hit up the quest log to parse out the location and update nextParanormalActivity to go along with it?

For future reference, if a KoLmafia feature "stops working" because of a KoL change, that does not equate to a KoLMafia bug.

Originally Posted by Veracity

I think in this case the issue is more that we aren't reading the text between the quotes because there isn't any, due to a KoL bug, rather than an intended KoL change.
Whilst we could work around it by visiting quest log when we see "The walkie-talkie on your proton accelerator crackles to life", and setting the timer at this point, KoL is likely to get fixed pretty soon after this is reported (which I have).

At the time when I tossed the OP up I thought it was Mafia-side, hence the "bug" tag, sorry. Once I went on GD and saw what was going on I made the follow-up post, but I failed to find a way to edit the tag away from bug. Thanks for the hotfix!